On September 22, 1969, two-year-old Lori Mae Peugeot and her 21-year-old mother, Linda, were last seen in LaVale, Maryland, after shopping at the former King’s Department Store. They had been living temporarily with relatives while Gerald Peugeot was serving in the U.S. Navy. In the store parking lot an armed man forced his way into their light green 1969 Pontiac GTO and demanded to be driven to Canada.

The man, later identified as escaped convict Stanley Barton Hoss Jr., stopped the car in Pennsylvania when Linda refused to go on. Hoss later said he shot Linda and put her body in the trunk. He then traveled with Lori; the pair were reported seen in Ohio on September 23 and Illinois on September 24. Hoss was arrested alone on October 4 in Waterloo, Iowa, still driving Linda’s car; investigators found Linda’s purse and Lori’s car seat inside. Hoss confessed to killing both women and gave locations for disposal, but searches failed to recover their remains.

No trial for these killings took place; Hoss died by suicide in prison in 1978. Does anyone have memories of the Peugeots in 1969 or information that could still help this long unresolved disappearance?